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Playing Sick : Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

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Overview

Playing Sick reconstructs how actors embodied three of the Victorian era's most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781138703117
  • ISBN-10: 1138703117
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: August 2018
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.11 pounds
  • Page Count: 232

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